No, it’s cool. I prefer it that way, to keep the post itself clear. Thanks again.

Thanks for the fact check! Updated.

The Okeechobee hurricane struck just north of Miami in 1928, killing thousands along Lake Okeechobee’s south shore.

The tragedy inspired Harlem Renaissance literary Zora Neale Hurston to author the 1937 novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.”

The Miami land boom of the 1920s was ended by a series of economic shocks, culminated by the Great Miami Hurricane of 1926, which came ashore in Miami Beach at South Beach, and decimated downtown.

Another hurricane ended FEC’s Key West service in 1935.

Miami’s population soared in a few short years during the 1920s, from over 42,000 at the start of the decade to passing 100,000 by 1926, and suburbs, in Hialeah and Coral Gables, were developed.

The 1920s coincided with the popular adoption of many consumer technologies in the U.S., including private automobiles and commercial radio.

Florida’s first radio station, WQAM, adopted its call sign in 1923.

Miami and South Florida were accessible to the continental U.S. after WWI, and in time for the Roaring Twenties, which brought with it the Miami land boom of the 1920s, which peaked from 1923 to 1925.

The FEC reached Miami to service Flagler’s Royal Palm Hotel at the north bank of the mouth of the Miami River in 1896, opening up Miami to the nation.

The advent of the automobile connected Miami by road via the Dixie Highway system in 1921.

The port tunnel underwater, freight transport at a standstill, Brickell banks inaccessible due to storm surge, the vulnerability just to downtown and South Beach is catastrophe no one in Miami, except the very old, have experienced.

You don’t even need a Cat. 5. If a storm like the 1926 Miami hurricane, a strong 3, followed its same trajectory, landfall at Government Cut/Miami Harbor, the same outcome.